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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






2. Narrative description of products - services or results






3. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






4. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






5. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






6. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






7. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






8. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






9. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






10. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






11. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






12. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






13. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






14. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






15. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






16. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






17. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






18. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






19. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






20. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






21. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






22. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






23. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






24. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






25. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






26. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






27. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






28. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






29. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






30. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






31. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






32. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






33. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






34. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






35. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






36. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






37. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






38. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






39. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






40. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






41. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






42. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






43. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






44. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






45. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






46. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






47. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






48. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






49. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






50. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase







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